Example sentences of "[is] [adj] more [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the Macho Man is where my money is — even if he is little more than a heap of flesh and bone . ’ |
| 2 | The pilot 's bum is little more than a foot off the ground and one is towered over by a Cessna 172 ! |
| 3 | IN SPITE of their success with chilled lamb in some Scottish stores last year , New Zealand suppliers seem to have accepted this is little more than a coals to Newcastle exercise . |
| 4 | Ermine moths , for example , economise by constructing a cocoon that is little more than a lattice . |
| 5 | In the middle of combat , one is little more than a wave in the sea … a stroke of the brush lost in the painting … |
| 6 | It must be said , however , that despite the beautiful detail of Piaget 's behavioural descriptions , his picture of the mental reorganizations underlying behavioural change was painted with a very broad brush ( by present-day standards ) ; and indeed the assimilation-accommodation model is little more than a description of what has to be explained , awaiting , what we now call , a ‘ computational model ’ . |
| 7 | The pickups and scratchplate look familiar , of course , but this is little more than a tip of the cap in the direction of Fender . |
| 8 | At this point , the channel is little more than a quarter of a mile wide and on the far bank a road continues the journey to Broadford . |
| 9 | In some cases a bit image is little more than a memory dump of video ram . |
| 10 | Unlike Wang , which has effectively withdrawn from systems manufacturing and is little more than a reseller for the IBM line , Bull will be taking up both the manufacturing and design rights it negotiated with IBM back in February ( UX No 370 ) . |
| 11 | It is certainly the case that urban areas such as inner Liverpool would benefit from private sector involvement and a stronger economic base but as Barnekov , Boyle and Rich ( 1989 ) point out this is little more than a truism . |
| 12 | The tenant 's adviser should be on his guard against such a provision since it is little more than a trap for the tenant , particularly since the figure specified by the landlord need not be a bona fide and genuine pre-estimate of the market rent ( Amalgamated Estates Ltd v Joystretch Manufacturing Ltd ( 1980 ) 257 EG 489 ) . |
| 13 | However , at low water , the river is little more than a trickle . |
| 14 | Because the small Brigadier they call The Ciskei Kid is little more than a puppet on a string . |
| 15 | It 's little more than a century ago that women were still being led to market to be sold to the highest bidder — in England . |
| 16 | Schmeichel is much more than a shot-stopper . |
| 17 | As Hadrian 's villa is much more than a villa , so Diocletian 's palace is more like a town and is also designed as a fortress . |
| 18 | Fumaroli 's book is much more than a polemic against the artistic policies of one government . |
| 19 | Crime is much more than a statistic to Rosemary Hunt . |
| 20 | Our system is much more than a word processor . |
| 21 | Secondly , Foucault argues that the panopticon is much more than a building . |
| 22 | ‘ Highlander is much more than a place or an institution . |
| 23 | A dojo is much more than a place where a karateka ( one who practises karate ) trains . |
| 24 | But the Church is much more than a place of worship . |
| 25 | Meeting special educational needs in ordinary schools is much more than a process of opening school doors to admit children previously placed in special schools . |
| 26 | Doubt now is much more than a matter of uncertainty . |
| 27 | This work with great and powerful climaxes in first and last movements ; with a scherzo as light as thistledown , a truly poetic slow movement and tremendous pageantry in the finale is much more than a series of vignettes of a great city . |
| 28 | What we have now is much more than a game : an exciting story to which we do not know the end ; and a visual image which will lead us to an exciting starting point for a drama , an image which we know has engaged the children . |
| 29 | His proposed implementation of VAT on the published word is much more than a tax on learning . |
| 30 | Maybe , he 's told , he 's much more than a celebrity . |